Differential roles for parietal and occipital cortices in visual working memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Matsuyoshi, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Ikeda, Takashi ^a,c   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^d   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^b,e   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^d   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861845317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038623     Document Type: Article

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